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In this week's newsletter:
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Upcoming Dates
- Monday 16th May: NES rehearsal at Strode's
- Tuesday 17th May: Kinky Boots theatre trip - sold out
- Thursday 19th May: Knit & Natter at Marian's
- Wednesday 25th May: next Progeny rehearsal
- Saturday 9th July: Summer Concert. Details TBC
- 15th - 17th July: Tour to Ely. Details and booking form below
All dates are available in the calendar on the NES website under 'Members' Area'.
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Rehearsals
On Monday 16th May we will be at Strode's College and will be rehearsing:
- Sumer is icumen in*
- Only you
- I vow
- Fly me to the moon
* see below for structure of Sumer Is Icumen In (click to enlarge)
Auditions on 16th May are in the main hall as follows:
6:10pm Theresa
6:20pm Don
6:30pm Enid
6:40pm Sue
6:50pm Malcolm
7pm Sam
7:10pm Janice
All rehearsal tracks are available under the Members' Area of website (password is Monday) or if you would prefer a CD please put your name and voice type on the list at rehearsal
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Polo Shirts
Order forms for NES Polo shirts now available from Enid at rehearsals.
They are colourful, NES branded and can be worn for outside performances e,g. on tour. However please note that a NES Polo Shirt is not mandatory - you can wear a bright top instead
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Committee Members
On the noticeboard at rehearsals there is now an A4 sheet with the Committee Members' names and photos. This will hopefully help put a face to a name - you are welcome to approach any Committee Member with feedback, thoughts, ideas, etc. about the choir. You can also email us on neweghamsingers@gmail.com
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Tour 2016 - Please Read
The Summer Tour is booking up so get book your spaces as soon as possible if you'd like to come. Partners are welcome to come along too so why not make a social weekend out of it?
We find that we have more tour deposits than we have booking forms which either means that somebody has paid twice or one of the booking forms has gone missing. To resolve this problem will all members who have booked to go on tour please check in with David, who will be stationed by the entrance to Coopers Hall on Wednesday, to ensure your booking details are in order.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD BOOKING FORM
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Concert Feedback
Thank you to everyone who gave feedback about our Spring concert. All feedback was discussed at the recent NES Committee Meeting. For those who gave feedback via email, I (Jenny) have replied to you however we thought it would be worthwhile giving everyone some feedback regarding the staging of concerts:
We have received a number of comments from members relating to the location and timing of our concerts. The Committee discussed all feedback received - in general we follow the following principles:
The venue
- Must be capable of accommodating a choir of around 100 members.
- Has space for an audience approaching 200 as well as the choir.
- Has good acoustics.
- Ideally has a good built in sound system. We can get around this by employing our own sound man but this adds to concert cost and brings another availability factor into play.
- Is available early enough in the day to allow erection of staging, and technical rehearsal before the concert; and available with sufficient time after the concert for all our equipment to be dismantled and removed.
- Has a space where our chosen charity can sell refreshments during the interval.
- Has nearby car parking for choir and audience.
- Has reasonable access for delivery of our staging.
Location
- Ideally a venue in Egham or as geographically close to Egham as possible. We have used a notional 8 mile travel distance from Egham in looking for venues.
Timings
- Ideally a Saturday which allows us to hold a full technical rehearsal with staging erected, sound system operational and with technician on hand to adjust, and with as little saving of seats for absent members as possible. It also means that more members are likely to be available for collecting, transporting and erecting staging.
- Saturday has less interference with the weekday activities of choir members , our MD and our accompanist.
- We have held concerts on Fridays in particular our Christmas concert at St John’s Church in Egham which is not available to us on Saturday. Doing this always means that we need to hold our technical rehearsal on the Wednesday before our concert when we do not have our staging erected, some members are not able to attend because of work commitments, and we rely on the availability of the sound technician to carry out sound checks – not an ideal situation when we are aiming to put on as professional a performance as possible. We get way with this at Christmas because of the number of audience participation carols and a carefully selected choir repertoire.
- Friday also means that we have to collect our staging at times to fit in with the activities of the school where we store our equipment and hope that there are enough members available to carry out the transportation and erection at those times.
If you know of any venues that meet these criteria please make sure that the committee is aware of them.
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Musical Note of the Week
An entrance with a difference!
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Please Note...
Remember to log in to the Members' Area (password is Monday) of the NES website where you can:
- Frequently Asked Questions - look on website under 'About' or click here
- view an up to date calendar of events including rehearsal, Progeny, concert and social dates. You can even synchronise the calendar to your own google calendar...
- listen to and download rehearsal tracks
- view and submit song requests
- see photos of events - please email if you would like a copy of a photo or a photo of yourself to be removed
- see electronic version of latest newsletter
To submit an item to the NES weekly newsletter, please email neweghamsingers@gmail.com with your article no later than 10pm on Wednesday. Please include a contact email address which can be included in your posting. Items considered can be choir or non-choir related.
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